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the legendary beasts annoyed me so much..... but i never used master ball on them. then i went to catch the roaming latias..... it was the most annoying. i had caught all the other main legendaries by then so i caught latias with it

I was curious which lengendary people caught with the master ball in SS/HG? Lugia, Ho-Oh, Entei, Suicune, or Raikou?

I think its probably best to catch one of the dogs with it. Lugia is easy and Ho-Oh is pretty hard, but at least he doesn't run like the dogs do.

True. In Soul silver getting Lugia= Easy. I was an idoiot on my first playthrough and used masterball on it. That Ho-oh in soul silver at level 70, RED HEALTH! You used all your pokeballs but this Ultra ball but too late Ho-oh just used struggle! IT WAS A PAIN!
On my second playthrough I used masterball on entei. Since I liked him better than raiku so I decided to get entei. Latios or Latias are hard to get (like all roaming pokemon) but not as hard as the legendary dogs roaming the johto.
I;m on my 3rd playthrough and I want to use my master ball on Ho-oh.

I never use my Master Ball, I'm kinda saving it for the occassion if I happen randomly see a shiny legendary Pokémon I don't especially want a shiny legendary but it's good to keep it there just for sure, right? But that Ho'oh, it's pretty hard to catch (I have SS)... well, I think I still try with Ultra, Timer and Heavy Balls and maybe sometime I manage to catch it...

I was very lazy with the MasterBall... I admit it.
I didn't even try battling Lugia or catching it. I don't remember why, but I got into the battle and pretty much thought, "I don't even want to..." So I just threw the MasterBall and that was that.

I dont like using a masterball, i like capturing with regular pokeballs.
The only time i used a Ultra ball was when i found a shiny steelix.
Last time i used a masterball was in pokemon gold not HG or SS to catch suicune.

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling

I didn't use the master ball last time I played Heart Gold and I transferred it to Platinum, where I have several master balls now- I used one on shiny Beldum- that's horribly hard to catch and knocks out itself with take down so I had to use because it was about to do so.

Usually I use Master Ball to Rayquaza (Emerald) or something if I'm lazy but many times I just save it. Heart Gold really has no pokemon worth of Master Ball. Lugia is easiest with Heavy Balls or Dusk Balls, Mewtwo is relatively easy to catch- Latias and Entei are disturbing but possible to catch with Wobbuffet or something and a lot of ultra balls. It's better just to save them if you happen to meet shiny Weezing or Voltorb or something and you don't have pokemon with damp. Then it's best to have some master balls- same with shiny teleporting pokemon.

Lugia or Mewtwo. Depends how Lugia goes.
I know it makes a sort of sense to use it on the roaming legendaries but I like the challenge presented by those guys. I enjoy chasing them around the regions. But by the time I've reached Lugia/Mewtwo in their respective dungeon I can't be arsed and just want a quick capture.

I dont like using a masterball, i like capturing with regular pokeballs.

I'm the same, I never used a Master Ball. I dislike it's design and do not like seeing my Pokémon pop out of it at the start of a battle. The only ones I ever use are regular Poke Balls and Premier Balls for Mythical Pokémon. Catching Ho-Oh in a Premier Ball nearly drove me insane. O.O

The level 45 Ho-oh. Yeah I probably wasted it instead of using it on Latias, Raikou, or Entei, but I was ready to go to the Pokemon League and I couldn't capture the thing at all. It was asleep with 1 HP left and it kept waking almost immediately.